Education is no longer just for the wise and experienced. The Academic Medicine Education Institution (AM•EI), launched on 6 September in conjunction with Teachers’ Day, hopes to build a community of excellent educators, and it’s got its sight set on the young generation.

In the recent SingHealth Duke-NUS Scientific Congress, Dr Tay Ee Guan and Assoc Prof Sandy Cook were actively involved. They defined areas where challenges can be addressed and where further progress can be made.

A mentor taught me to never take short cuts and be as thorough and efficient as I can. If you simply go through the motions and steps that you have been taught in school, you might miss certain things or not completely understand what a patient needs. This will also lead to poor patient compliance and hence, poor outcomes.